Dr. Eleonora Di Cintio
Researcher Music History, project Dance/Music digital

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In March 2010 Bachelor's Degree in Artistic and Multimedia Communication at the University of Teramo with the thesis "I madrigali di Guarini musicati da Gesualdo. Per una descrizione del manierismo come categoria storiografica". In June 2010 Master's Degree in Lyrical Singing at the Campobasso National Conservatory of Music "Lorenzo Perosi". In 2014 Master's Degree in Musicology at La Sapienza University of Rome with the thesis "Antonio Londonio, mecenate musicale a Milano nella seconda metà del Cinquecento". In 2018 PhD in History and Analysis of Musical Cultures at La Sapienza University of Rome with the thesis "I viaggi di Penelope. Testi e contesti della Penelope di Domenico Cimarosa". From January to April 2019 Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome with the project "Ercole Consalvi. Eminenza musicale romana tra Sette e Ottocento". From September 2020 to August 2021 Research Fellow at La Sapienza University of Rome with the project "Vocalità, drammaturgia e recezione del primo Bellini" (PRIN 2017 "Vincenzo Bellini nel XXI secolo. Edizioni critiche, digitalizzazione storiografica, messinscene, videografia"). In 2021 grant holder for a research start-up project of La Sapienza University of Rome with the project "Il contendente muto. Salvatore Viganò e la recezione del Rossini serio nella Milano asburgica (1816–1822)". From September 2021 to January 2022 Post-doc fellow at the University Roma Tre in the project "Didattica innovativa negli spazi teatrali e in ambienti digitali attraverso la musica". From May 2022 to April 2023 Research fellow at La Sapienza University of Rome with the project "Vincenzo Bellini musicista italiano. Narrazioni del carattere nazionale in epoca risorgimentale (1827–1870)". In July 2024 National Scientific Qualification to Associate Professor in the sector 10/C1 – Theatre, Music, Cinema, Television and audiovisual Media (until July 2035). From September to December 2024 Wallace Fellow at Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies with the project "Daughter of Venice or Queen of Cyprus? Caterina Corner on the European Operatic Stage on the Eve of 1848". From July 2025 to August 2026 Researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome in the project Dance/Music Digital.

Main research interests
Musical philology of Italian opera in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Italian opera and politics between the 18th and 19th centuries; relationships between opera and dance in the 19th; opera and Italian communitarian identities during the Risorgimento